Artist Noel Miller has produced a cute book titled Sophisticated Alligators: A Handbook of Reptilian Repartee (1995), in which she depicts famous people from history as alligators. As the dust jacket states, “Ms. Miller contends that each of us contains his or her own inner alligator — acknowledged or not.”
I had ordered a copy to use one of the images in my talk on Lizzie Borden in Popular Culture in Fall River last week, but, alas, it didn’t arrive in time. But it was waiting for me when I got back so I can share the image with you here.
She also has a poem on the facing page:
LIZZIE. Lizzie Borden, alligator, Took and ax and gave her mater Forty whacks. When she’d done, she gave her pater (Who dropped by for a moment later) Forty-one. Thus did Lizzie Borden, gator, Giver her folks her imprimatur.
I rather like her green!
